the u.n. says the civil war has created 235,000 refugees, almost half of them in the last month. >> while germany's foreign minister has called for a transitional government to be installed in syria, posting a second meeting of the international working group on the country, he called for a common platform of all opposition groups. >> many western countries are placing their hopes in the syrian national council. >> the berlin conference is planning for syria after the fall of the assad regime. ahead of the secure -- and of the syrian national council is based in turkey. he does not want to wait until assad has been toppled before laying out his vision of a new series. >> we are wishing the new syria will be secular, democratic, and for every person, for every group. >> however lofty that vision, the german foreign minister knows, there are more pressing issues such as the humanitarian situation. the civil war in syria is spreading. 100,000 people fled the fighting in august. most to turkey, ot